Employee Turnover

Hiring/Termination

Made through an identification code.  In termination, the status is changed to D and the Work History and Reason for Write-off fields are considered.

Employer Registration Changes/Salary Changes

The date of registration change is considered. Concerning salary changes, enter the start date to consider raise and percentage.

Payment Frequency

According to the article 168 from the Work Code, the parties establish a date for salary payment as long as it is not after the fortnight for operating workers, and not after a month for white-collar and domestic workers.

To complement this article, according to the 169 from the same code, the salary must be fully paid every payment period. Such salary is the total amount considered in usual and extraordinary working hours.

The Number of Days field is used to define whether the payment is:

Weekly: Wages for 6 days of work and 26 days in a month.

In the employee file, the amount registered is monthly.

Fortnightly: Wages for 15 days of work.

In the employee file, the amount registered is monthly.

Monthly with Advance: Not defined in legislation, but the usual advance is 40% of Nominal Wage in the first and second fifteen days of payroll, deducting the advance value.

In the employee file, the amount registered is monthly. The Advance % field must be filled out with the percentage per employee.

Fourteen Days: Not defined in legislation. It must be considered as a monthly mode paying sevens days of the week and fourteen days of work.

In the employee file, the amount registered is monthly.

Per day, hour, task or project: For civil construction workers, freelances, or service providers.

In this situation, define the value of each task performed or specific construction.

Conversion Factor

The calendar month always considers 30 days, including for fortnightly periods (two periods of fifteen days). For weekly periods, 26 days are considered.

An exception is made when an employee is hired in the middle of the month, considering only the days of work.

Additional Days of 13th Salary/Vacation

An annual average monthly salary is considered as 13th salary. According to the law, vacation is expired every other year. However, the company establishes the time for the vacation to be effective.

Vacation considers 12 days of average salary when the payroll is weekly, or 14 days for the other ones.

CCSS/IG Subsidy

The company decides whether these values are considered for employer operational service of CCSS.

The IG Subsidy field indicates whether the company pays the first three days of leave, CCSS for general illness disabilities.

For absences due to illness, employees must follow INS procedures to receive their salary.

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